Operation Nicole
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Operation Nicole is an initiative that was developed by the Lancashire Constabulary and recommended for wider use by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is a tabletop exercise which aims to allow police to explain to community members how and why they have to take certain actions when confronting terrorism.[1]
The official aim of the projecct is to:
"give participants a better understanding of the factors that support the decision-making process from the time that information is received through to the point of planned police action. The strength of these exercises is the opportunity for communities to explore the reasoning behind the need to arrest people for terrorist offences. These exercises very clearly demonstrate the hard choices that have to be made and the care that is taken in making them. [2]
The Lokahi Foundation, which has been involved in facilitating Operation Nicole, understands the objective to be:
"a joint community/police training event generating intensive dialogue between a national police body and members of the Muslim communities. The aim is for each to understand what it feels like to be in the others’ shoes and have to take key decisions, especially when it all starts to fall apart."[3]
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Notes
- ↑ The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England: Stopping People from becoming or supporting Terrorists and Violent Extremists, HM Government, May 2008, accessed 24.03.10
- ↑ The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England: Stopping People from becoming or supporting Terrorists and Violent Extremists, HM Government, May 2008, accessed 24.03.10
- ↑ Lokahi Foundation: Case Studies, accessed 24.03.10
